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Antioxidants combat directly free radicals, potentiate other antioxidants, inhibit formations of free radicals and prevent the depletion of antioxidants. The secret to successful deploying the antioxidants into your body is a combination approach in which the antioxidants work synergistically in restoring normal function to all bodily tissues.

What I got for you, dear reader, is a list which contains the most important antioxidants. Here we go:

Green Tea

Also called, GTA (green tea antioxidant) or GTE (green tea extract), has been clinically shown to be as much as 200 times more effective than vitamin E at scavenging hydrogen peroxide and superoxide anion radicals. It's perhaps the most potent antioxidant known to man in its ability to prevent:

1. antibacterial and antiviral activity
2. anti-platelet and hypo-cholesterolemic activity
3. lung cancer due to smoking
4. skin damage and skin cancer due to radiation
5. a host of other age related maladies.

Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCg) is by far the most important active ingredient of green tea. Green tea is unprocessed (black tea is the same plant but in processed form).

Bilberry

Very popular during WWII among the Allied Forces pilots because it promoted superior visual activity, especially when flying by night.

So why should you try the bilberry?

1. protects the blood capillaries
2. protects the heart
3. shows excellent anti-inflammatory action
4. inhibits cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis
5. inhibits serum platelet aggregation (clotting)
6. you can make a nice jam of it.

Its chief action as natural creatine monohydrate antioxidant is its powerful synergy with Vitamin E.

Ginkgo Biloba

The Ginkgo Biloba tree has its origin in China and Japan and lives over 1000 years! The active components are quercetin and flavoglycosides.

Ginkgo is shown to:

1. reduce clots or thrombi formation in the veins and arteries
2. increase cellular energy by increasing cellular glucose and ATP (Adenosine triphosphate, a multifunctional nucleotide that is most important as a "molecular currency" of intracellular energy transfer)
3. scavenge free radicals
4. prevent the formation of free radicals
5. reduce high blood pressure
6. promote peripheral blood flow
7. ameliorate inner ear problems

Ginkgo also improves short-term memory, alertness, and various other cognitive disorders.

Maria Thistle

The active component is silymarin and its known

1. to be very helpful in restoring the normal metabolic function to the liver
2. to promote cellular regeneration via increased protein synthesis
3. to aid in protecting the kidneys
4. to act as a powerful antioxidant through its sparing effects on glutathione (a tripeptide, can be synthesized from amino-acids)

Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid (NDGA)

Used as an antioxidant in fat and oils. Occurs in resinous exudate of many plants, particularly the chapparal bush.

Selenium, Glutathione and Vitamins A, C, and E

The element selenium is an important constituent of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase. Vitamine E and selenium tend to enhance the effects of one another. Vitamine E works to prevent the formation of free radicals and glutathione peroxidase destroys those already present.

Selenium is an important part of the body's immune response system and blood clotting mechanism. Vitamins A, C and E are all powerful antioxidants. Vitamin C (ascorbate) for example is a real workhorse, both scavenging superoxide and hydroxyl radicals and potentiating the beneficial effects of many other substances in both the diet and certain nutritional supplements.

Vitamin A (beta-carotene) is effective in preventing and treating pathologies involving singlet oxygen radicals triggered by intense sunlight

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